1894 - 1979
Jean Renoir (French: [ʁənwaʁ]; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Renoir has received more than 1,082,413 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Jean Renoir is the 125th most popular actor (down from 107th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from France (down from 295th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Actor.
Jean Renoir is most famous for his films, such as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game.
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Among actors, Jean Renoir ranks 125 out of 10,030. Before him are Jason Statham, Lee Van Cleef, Shirley MacLaine, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Hardy, and Burt Lancaster. After him are Rita Hayworth, Yves Montand, Klaus Kinski, Monica Bellucci, Keanu Reeves, and Bruno Ganz.
1967 - Present
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 119
1925 - 1989
HPI: 77.41
Rank: 120
1934 - Present
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 121
1932 - 2013
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 122
1892 - 1957
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 123
1913 - 1994
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 124
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 125
1918 - 1987
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 126
1921 - 1991
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 127
1926 - 1991
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 128
1964 - Present
HPI: 77.15
Rank: 129
1964 - Present
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 130
1941 - 2019
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 131
Among people born in 1894, Jean Renoir ranks 10. Before him are Edward VIII, Aldous Huxley, Maximilian Kolbe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Georges Lemaître, and Boris III of Bulgaria. After him are Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Norbert Wiener, John Ford, Joseph Roth, Harold Macmillan, and Fritz Sauckel. Among people deceased in 1979, Jean Renoir ranks 8. Before him are Park Chung-hee, John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Herbert Marcuse, Talcott Parsons, and Nino Rota. After him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Kocsis, Mika Waltari, and Hanna Reitsch.
1894 - 1972
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 4
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 5
1894 - 1941
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 6
1894 - 1961
HPI: 78.53
Rank: 7
1894 - 1966
HPI: 78.33
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 9
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 10
1894 - 1972
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 11
1894 - 1964
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 12
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 13
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 14
1894 - 1986
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 15
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 16
1917 - 1979
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 2
1907 - 1979
HPI: 79.41
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 4
1898 - 1979
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 5
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 7
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 8
1900 - 1979
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 9
1888 - 1979
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 12
1908 - 1979
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 13
1912 - 1979
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Jean Renoir ranks 330 out of 5,234. Before him are René Goscinny (1926), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Adolphe Adam (1803), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), and François Couperin (1668). After him are Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Claude of France (1499), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and Léo Delibes (1836).
1926 - 1977
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 324
1492 - 1549
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 325
1948 - Present
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 326
1803 - 1856
HPI: 77.22
Rank: 327
1775 - 1857
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 328
1668 - 1733
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 329
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 330
1270 - 1325
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 331
1499 - 1524
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 332
1743 - 1794
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 333
1908 - 1992
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 334
1682 - 1712
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 335
1836 - 1891
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 336
Among actors born in France, Jean Renoir ranks 9. Before him are Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Louis de Funès (1914), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Gérard Depardieu (1948), and Jean Marais (1913). After him are Jean Gabin (1904), Anouk Aimée (1932), Philippe Noiret (1930), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), and Gérard Philipe (1922).
1844 - 1923
HPI: 83.05
Rank: 3
1933 - Present
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 4
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 5
1943 - Present
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 79.53
Rank: 7
1913 - 1998
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 8
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 9
1904 - 1976
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 10
1932 - Present
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 11
1930 - 2006
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 12
1928 - 2017
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 13
1930 - Present
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 14
1922 - 1959
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 15